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What happened to you recently that's never happened before? The other day I borrowed one of my parent's vehicles to drive to work because I had an unexpected battery problem on mine and could not start. When I was at a 4-way stop I accidentally put my right turn signal on when doing a left turn without knowing about the signal until after I did the turn, I had the right of way and I confused the heck out of the person opposite who was getting prepared to turn right, in return I was also a bit confused why they were creeping so forward into the intersection so soon. Thankfully nothing bad happened, although I felt bad for the other driver for my mistake. At least no horns were honked. ^_^ As for computer life, for the first time I rigged a model by hand that was non-stiff (as are my lego figure models) and as well made a SFM picture that was not LEGO (I didn't post it here). As for that picture, I had one of the game's staff ask me up front if he could post the picture to his twitter account, so that was cool. On a less entertaining note, I visited a forum I haven't been on in 3 years and started posting there again out of the blue. Oh, and I also made a gif earlier this week that I personally animated, although I'm sure you've all seen that by now.

I started my day with Windows 10, instead of MacOS El Capitan.

Aw, my heart has been warmed, and not because of indigestion.

I have been attempting to get Rock Raiders running on Windows 10. At first I tried a basic installation from the CD despite the lack of success I saw from members here. Compatibility settings: Windows XP sp3 16 bit color I got the game to show the brick fall Lego screen but it would immediately crash afterwards . I then followed this guide and set up Rock Raiders on an XP VM. Rock Raiders installed properly and would load into the display device selection menu. After selecting windowed with RGB software emulation and clicking OK the program crashes without error. VM Display settings: System: Winows 10 x64 i7-6700k NVIDIA GTX 1080 32 Gb RAM Windows XP x32 running on VirtualBox Installed from my original English Rock Raiders disk (Part #2299691) with DRM. LegoRR.icd - 720kb

So I've was doing a bit of fan speculation from an in-universe perspective and not developer's in relation to the PC timeline of the Island series (tid-bits from other versions and sources are welcome though), and I didn't really have an conclusive answer come up for the true story of this which still remains a mystery. In the in between years of Island and Island 2, and as well Island 2 and Xtreme Stunts, what caused the Island changes? Did the island slowly morph and get bigger as more land drifted in? Did the residents move off the island because of population growth? Or where they forced off their homeland to find a new one for X reasons? If the later two, why did the take Brickster along with them? Is it because they were worried he might scheme up something to get revenge on the island? For the first set of questions I put up there, the last point of "forced off the island" would make for the most interesting story for sure. Perhaps the Brickster is even worse than we thought and he caused the destruction of them! Speaking of that, you know how there is a bad ending and good ending in the first Island? What if in the bad ending universe that event led to them having to leave the island and rebuild somewhere else? (thus Island 2). With having their island destroyed in the first game and with Brickster in possession of the almighty power brick, they didn't really have any way to rebuild, leading them to have to find a new place to live. Say eventually some time down the road after their leave they found the magical Contructopedia book which the power brick had no effect on and they rebuilt. Know one knows of the books's origin, but for all we know perhaps they found this relic somewhere by chance on their venture for a new home. A simple alternative is that the due to the Informaniac's well known-ness and his wide range of contacts he could have simply got the book from one of his magician friends that we don't know about. If the later, whilst the Informaniac may have heard of the weakness of the builds that were tied in with the book (a simple tear for destruction), I'm sure the people of LEGO Island would have been desperate and devastated for a new place to call home at this time so anything that worked they went with. In an unrelated note, as characters age (at least Pepper does) there is a sense of time meaning old age and new life, although we never see any new younger characters having been assembled by parents after Pepper's arrival (whom for the unaware was adopted). Was he the last new child on the island? Or are children just that rare? If the former, what caused the halt in new children? (mind you there is those three youngsters who hang out on the beach on Xtreme Stunts, but they don't have that much age difference relation to Pepper, so potentially they could have just moved in - unless rapid aging during the younger years is a thing). Another thing, did Pepper's parents use to live on the island before getting lost, or was Pepper transported over after he got adopted? What's the speculation behind that? I don't normally go out and avidly make fan speculations, so excuse me if I sound like I'm just spouting out a lot of hooey and don't know what I'm talking about, just work with me here. ^^

Plausible, but where is this source? Saw it say "We’ve had a chance to repair the island and even expand a little" in the Island 2 manual. I guess they could of got bricks shipped in for expansion assuming they don't have a way to magically summon bricks from nowhere or are able to harness the power of portals to place one right at a brick factory for instants transportation. Oh well, it was still a fun less-kid friend theory. Who knows, maybe the Infomaniac is hiding the truth to try and cover up the past as to try and attract more visitors, more "friends" (since he seems to have a liking to that), and what I said is true after all. I'm trying to recall, do we ever get an explanation in Island 2 what caused the portals to appear anyway? Or do they just appear out of convenience to the story. I know in the GBA version of Island 2 you travel between islands without usage of portals, or so it seems. The portals could be off screen for all we know although it never was strictly implied. Yes, because he deserves exile for his repeated destructive deeds. Shouldn't builds be not reliant on a book being together in one piece? It must have some sort of magical connection to them. It seems the islanders (not kahuka type of islander) were pretty reliant on the book as you were saying, and when the pages came back, so did the bricks magically from the sky. Why bill-ding was there when they spawned in, who knows, maybe it's just his pride putting him there to show that he is still the master builder on the island even though we all know he doesn't really build anything? On a slightly more logical note than pride, another thing that could be is that, you know how Pepper has to "gather" bricks from the people around island to build his house? Maybe Bill Ding writes instructions for/in the constructopedia and bricks just have to be gathered to be 'magically' put into the book either by Bill-Ding or the Informaniac (which we don't see) for the bricks to start assembling itself into the build, and Bill-Ding is just there to supervise the construction to make sure the written instructions went according to plan. I'm sure Bill-Ding has a bunch of unbuilt instruction pages laying around, what else would he be doing in his spare time when not building? =P Maybe maybe not, perhaps it helped super charge his deconstructor gun to do a max overload of damage wheras before it only could do small damage? Brickster must have had some reason for immediately grabbing the brick off the info-center first thing, and why else would the Infomaniac be going bonkers about the fact that he stole it if it didn't give some sort of important power? Just checked up on the manual, and yep his relatives were around. I kinda forgot about those guys tbh, although they did kinda disappear in Xtreme Stunts, so who knows what happened, maybe they moved out.

didn't it say they made it bigger themselves? it's not like that's much of a stretch for magic plastic people. what else would they do with him, leave him in isolation forever? i mean i really have no idea what either of those things were. the contructopedia was just what a bunch of instruction manuals? and i guess you can't build things without instructions even though lego wants to promote creativity? you know what, if the game had ended with people rebuilding things their own way instead of relying on wait this is just the plot to the lego movie, uhh the power brick was just something the brickster put on his head. i don't think that had any more meaning than all the times gideon worse got decapitated. i wish lego had done that style of animation in any of their games afterward. i mean just get bill ding to make something. it'll probably be crap but at least it'll be something. im pretty sure it says that in the manual. about his grandparents, uncle-ish?, and dad anyway. the soccer kids in LI2 are a bit younger than pepper

Thursday, I cracked a sarcastic remark about pot, plants, and potted plants, almost making the girl's head explode from laughter right there during the middle of class.

seems like it warmed the ice you've been encased in since winter too

Nintendo 64!!! Oh, and a computer . In all seriousness: It's good to see, that everything seems to work and that it was a cool experience. P.S.: The first two pictures are really dark though. Especially No. 1.

Update from Wes:

Ooooooooooh... He looks fully armoured. Which is odd, because we don't see that much in Lego sets. They're all missing some piece somewhere, and why does Lego think the best place to armour is the shoulderblades... Shield is good.... but my historical accuracy is saying "no point having a shield with a mace, mace is heavy enough as it stands." But hey, Bionicle can hardly be called historically accurate. Looks nice, but if you want a shield, go for a giant one. All or none. Why yellow? It's a bit... too bright for a Makuta.

LEGO's Media Department wrote back to me. Good to know they're at least looking into it: